Apple Music, App Store, other Apple services experience outages

Beats 1 radio wasn’t the only Apple service to temporarily go down during the MTV’s VMA nominee announcements. As TechCrunch first reported and Apple’s own status page confirmed, many more of Apple’s services experienced issues Tuesday morning that stretched into the afternoon. Normal service was restored just before 2PM ET. The outages appeared limited to services related to Apple’s online storefronts, but “limited” here is a relative term as many popular services are apparently tied in: Apple Music, Apple Radio, the App Store, Apple TV, the Mac App Store, iTunes Match, and even OS X Software Update all suffered problems. The outage wasn’t universal, but still proved an unexpected headache for users.

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Cloud computing is here to stay, but it won’t replace what we knew about computers, local access of data can never be replaced with cloud storage. Cloud storage will only serve as a backup. However with regards to music/video streaming, there should be an option(at least many streaming services like spotify) to store music offline in order to at least remedy the outage situation.

Cloud computing is here to stay, but it won’t replace what we knew about computers, local access of data can never be replaced with cloud storage. Cloud storage will only serve as a backup. However with regards to music/video streaming, there should be an option(at least many streaming services like spotify) to store music offline in order to at least remedy the outage situation.

Reading between the lines, it looks like local storage will only serve as a backup, and cloud storage will become primary?

People not having a backup will not really change…

What we deserve as consumers is more interoperability such that our devices/data/apps aren’t so dependent upon a single provider.

Cloud computing is here to stay, but it won’t replace what we knew about computers, local access of data can never be replaced with cloud storage.

Yes it can. Who says it can’t? To look at real reliability of data storage you have to compare a particular services outages vs local outages. How reliable is your local data store? Is it a raid 10 SAN or NAS with remote backup in a firesafe cold storage? Does all of the backups get tested regularly?

Cloud computing is here to stay, but it won’t replace what we knew about computers, local access of data can never be replaced with cloud storage.

Yes it can. Who says it can’t? To look at real reliability of data storage you have to compare a particular services outages vs local outages. How reliable is your local data store? Is it a raid 10 SAN or NAS with remote backup in a firesafe cold storage? Does all of the backups get tested regularly?

While the cloud storage such as google drive is far more reliable and can withstand any outages, our local storage is more convenient to use because it is local. Network outages will cause your google drive far more less reliable than your local storage(regardless of your raid/NAS setup).

Imagine you have no internet connection, data links are broken, you are in a remote location with no network. Your primary storage must be your local drives and the cloud is your secondary storage.

Your drive already has the firmware to check its reliability, let us just trust that one. And you can buy multiple drives at the same time without having to build your own NAS. If you really care about your data, then you need to store multiple storage locations within your home and two or more offsite storage for disaster recovery. You can go by just using JBOD or setup a NAS for each of this node.

Of course there are scenarios in which a cloud won’t work. Duh. I was trying to make the case that there are scenarios where using the cloud actually makes a lot more sense then touching local storage.

Your drive already has the firmware to check its reliability,

But sadly, it doesn’t notify me when its being burned to a crisp by an outside flame source.

Also sadly, I’ve had many drives fail. None of which warned me. Most of those were 10 + years ago, but still.